I remember being excited about trying to see all the versions, but once it dawned on me that each version was practically identical except for a few minor substitutions, I got bored with the whole thing.
The video for Bright Eyes’ Lover I Don’t have To Love is done as a karaoke video. Literally. There are all these meaningless shots of people walking along the beach etc. while the words are highlighted as they’re being sung. It’s a nice idea, but really boring to watch.
I’ve got the album, and the first EP. Maps is probably my favourite song (followed by Art Star. It’s not like their other stuff, but it’s so gorgeously honest and raw. I can’t comment on the video, though. You should get the album; it’s very good, and most of the songs are of the raw raunch mould. Only No Modern Romance and Y Control have that more introspective sound.
One that is supposed to be “entertaining” but just makes me switch over is “Sledgehammer” by Peter Gabriel. Never liked the song, which doesn’t help, though some of his earlier solo stuff was good. It just seemed a waste of a lot of hours of jerky still frame animation.
Pavement made a video (don’t remember the song title) that was a bathtub filling up with water.
Sorry, you’re all wrong. The most boring video is Bastards Of Young by The Replacements’ off the album Tim which consisted of nothing but a black & white shot of a stereo speaker. Genius in its own way and a kick-ass song to boot.
Darn you, Hodge! That’s the video I came here to talk about!
D’Angelo…not Maxwell.
“Cry” by Godley & Creme. It’s just close-ups of faces singing the song, slowly fading from one face to the other, and filmed in black and white. It’s insanely boring, IMHO.
I remember when Michael Jackson’s “Black or White” video came out with the CG morphing faces, some critics compared it to “Cry” and claimed “It’s already been done, and been done better!” :rolleyes: The slow wipes from face to face isn’t the same thing at all, and it isn’t even interesting to look at.
I concur that most concert-type videos are a snooze, too, but I will admit a fondness for Van Halen’s “Jump.” No story or special effects, just the band performing and goofing off, but it looks like they’re having fun and is fun to watch.
Sinaed’s “Nothing compares to you.” Ugh.
Yep, Hodge stole my video too. 
Man, I can’t wait til I get home and can dig up some Replacements…
While were on the subject of stealing posts.
Both Jump and Start Me Up by the Stones. I always picture the backstory being something along the lines of “Ok guys, our video budget is $12.37. We’ll roll camera, you lip-synch.”
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The Yeah Yeah Yeahs video. I don’t know the name of the song but it goes “they don’t love you like I love you” about 6 billion times. Boring song, boring video.
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I actually kind of like this video. The singer seems to act some emotion into it.
“The Robots” by Kraftwerk.
You get to watch four Kraftwerk-looking mechanical manequins move their arms and heads around. Thankfully, they didn’t use the album version of the song, which runs over six minutes.
I remember that Maxwell video, and I remember an Entertainment Weekly sidebar article about the video claiming it was was somehow about the viewer (through the viewpoint of the camera) performing oral sex on Maxwell. WTF? The writer also claimed that the song and video were so great and so sexy that we didn’t mind one bit. Speak for yourself.
Yeah, pretty much any concert performance video, especially all the interchangeable ones by 80s hair bands, are damn dull. Poison and Bon Jovi spring to mind.
There was a video for a bland country song called “Dreamin’” that was just the band, who I don’t remember the name of, playing the song in various locations in what looked like some state park. The lead singer would stroll around and make gestures that he had obviously seen hundreds of times in other videos, he reminded me of someone singing in front of their mirror at home. To make it worse the whole thing was shot on video, making it look even cheaper, This was getting played quite often on the cable country music channels about two years ago. The record label must have really had no faith in the group if they wouldn’t spring for shooting on film for an already super-cheap video.